Programme Specification for the 2023/4 academic year
BA (Hons) English and Film & Television Studies with Employment Experience
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) English and Film & Television Studies with Employment Experience | Programme code | UFA4EGLEGL20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Part Time Full Time |
Academic year | 2023/4 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA English and Film & Television Studies with Employment Experience programme offers you the opportunity to combine study of a wide and exciting range of material in English literature, film and television. You will study literature from the medieval period to the present day and watch films from American, European, and other World cinemas, as well as learning about the trends and technologies of television. The range of material studied will equip you to understand the complex histories of these written and visual media as well as how important issues of cultural difference are raised through them, giving you the tools and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude to your own literary and media cultures. We encourage you to make the most of the facilities available to broaden and enhance your study of film, not just on campus and in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum but also through the lively English and film cultures (art-house cinema, media facilities) in the city itself.
As you progress through your degree into the second and final years, you will be able to follow your own interests by choosing from the variety of topics on offer, culminating in your own research project, a dissertation, in your final year. You will also learn to work flexibly and creatively with others and engage in debate as well as exercising independent thought and judgement whilst becoming an effective independent learner.
This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent gaining employment experience at a suitable location in the UK.
This Employment Experience variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken in the United Kingdom directly into your programme of study, to reflect critically upon these experiences, and for them to count towards the assessment of your degree. There is no better way to gain valuable employment experience that can be rewarded and recognised clearly by future employers. With preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career.
You are required to find your own placement with suitable employers and organisations with preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities. If you are taking this variant you are strongly encouraged to take HUM2000 or HUM2001 (Humanities in the Workplace) at stage 2 and must participate in the pre-departure briefing sessions for Humanities Employment Experience.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
The programme aims to:
- involve you in two teaching programmes with broad historical coverage, content, and methodology.
- engage you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing literary, non-literary, filmic and televisual texts, and to encourage you to acquire the analytical tools necessary for an understanding of these texts.
- enable and encourage you to engage with current critical and theoretical debates relating to literature, film and television
- enable you to understand the historical evolution of key concepts such as authorship, genre, narrative, and language in both literature and film, and to consider the distinct and shared ways in which these concepts have developed within particular national cinemas and literary traditions.
- encourage you to develop a comparative understanding of the ways in which aesthetic judgements are constructed and aesthetic processes are experienced with regards to literature, film, and television.
- provide you with the analytical skills necessary for an understanding of film and television as audiovisual media.
- provide an intellectually stimulating and satisfying experience of learning and studying, whilst encouraging a sense of the distinctive social and cultural importance of English, film, and television.
- provide a broad and challenging intellectual training and a foundation of personal and key skills for those students entering the world of work on graduation, together with a suitable basis for those who wish to pursue further research in the relevant subject or subjects.
- enable you to become reflective and autonomous independent learners.
- develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills of value in graduate employment.
- offer you the opportunity to develop your skills and capabilities (including linguistic skills, where appropriate) through the pursuit of study in another University in a different geographical and cultural setting.
- incorporate a work experience placement into your degree programme.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/modules/
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. Optional modules offered are subject to change depending on staff availability and student demand. You are expected to balance your credits in each stage of the programme, taking 60 credits from Film Studies, and 60 credits from English.
You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in the second and final stages as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. However, if, during stage 2, you have selected HUM2000, ‘Humanities in the Workplace,’ you may not choose a module outside English and Film in the final stage.
Stage 1
90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional English modules.
a You must select 30 credits from this list of optional English modules; EAS1040 is only available in Term 2 to Combined Honours students.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAF1501 | Major Debates in Film Theory | 30 | No |
| EAF1506 | Interrogating Screens | 30 | No |
| EAS1035 | Beginnings: English Literature before 1800 | 30 | No |
| HAS1905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAS CH Stage 1 Option Modules 2023-4 [See note a above] | |||
| EAS1032 | Approaches to Criticism | 30 | No |
| EAS1034 | Film Studies: An Introduction | 15 | No |
| EAS1037 | The Novel | 15 | No |
| EAS1038 | The Poem | 15 | No |
| EAS1040 | Academic English | 15 | No |
| EAS1041 | Rethinking Shakespeare | 15 | No |
| EAS1042 | Write after Reading | 30 | No |
| EAS1044 | Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing | 15 | No |
| EAS1045 | The Essay: Form and Content | 15 | No |
| LIB1105 | Being Human in the Modern World | 30 | No |
| HUM1001 | Enter the Matrix: Digital Perspectives on the Humanities | 15 | No |
Stage 2
120 credits of optional modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HAS2905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
Subject to selecting 120 credits overall in the stage, you must:
b select 30-60 credits from this list of optional Film Studies modules.
c select 30-60 credits from this list of optional English modules. English modules in stage 2 are divided into three groups: Group 1, modules concerned with pre-1750 literature; Group 2, modules concerned with post-1750 literature; Group 3, modules not concerned with a particular historical period. Combined Honours students may not take more than one module from each group.
d select 0-30 credits from this list of other Humanities modules, or from outside of the programme. You may only select one of the two modules HUM2000 or HUM2001.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTVS Stage 2 CH option modules 2023-4 [See note b above] | |||
| EAF2500 | European Cinemas: Art, Industry, Entertainment | 15 | No |
| EAF2502 | Shots in the Dark | 30 | No |
| EAF2508 | Cinescapes: Time, Space and Identity | 30 | No |
| EAF2510 | Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture | 30 | No |
| EAF2511 | Television: Times, Trends and Technologies | 30 | No |
| EAF2512 | European Cinemas: Art, Industry, Entertainment | 30 | No |
| EAS Stage 2 Pre-1750 Option Modules 2023-4 [See note c above] | |||
| EAS2026 | Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640 | 30 | No |
| EAS2036 | Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| EAS2071 | Chaucer and His Contemporaries | 30 | No |
| EAS2080 | Renaissance and Revolution | 30 | No |
| EAS2102 | Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750 | 30 | No |
| EAS Stage 2 Post-1750 Option Modules 2023-4 [See note c above] | |||
| EAF2502 | Shots in the Dark | 30 | No |
| EAF2510 | Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture | 30 | No |
| EAS2029 | Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings | 30 | No |
| EAS2103 | Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960 | 30 | No |
| EAS2104 | Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations | 30 | No |
| EAS2106 | Romanticism | 30 | No |
| EAS2116 | Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century | 30 | No |
| EAF2511 | Television: Times, Trends and Technologies | 30 | No |
| EAS Stage 2 Neutral Option Modules 2023-4 [See note c above] | |||
| EAS2031 | Creative Writing: Building a Story | 30 | No |
| EAS2032 | Creative Writing: Making a Poem | 30 | No |
| EAS2035 | Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop | 30 | No |
| EAS2089 | Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future | 30 | No |
| EAS2090 | Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory | 30 | No |
| EAS2113 | Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World | 30 | No |
| AHV2018 | Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres | 30 | No |
| HAS2004 | Making a Career in Publishing | 30 | No |
| HUM HUM2000-HUM2001 [See note d above] | |||
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| HUM2001 | Humanities in the Workplace | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3998 | Employment Experience UK | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
30 credits of compulsory dissertation, 90 credits of optional modules (including 30-60 credits of English modules, and 30-60 credits of Film Studies modules)
Compulsory Modules
e You must choose either EAF3514 Film Studies Dissertation, EAF3516 Creative Film Dissertation, EAS3003 Dissertation (English), or EAS3122 Creative Writing Dissertation (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAS3003 | Dissertation [See note e above] | 30 | No |
| EAS3122 | Creative Writing Dissertation [See note e above] | 30 | No |
| EAF3514 | Film Studies Dissertation [See note e above] | 30 | No |
| EAF3516 | Creative Film Dissertation [See note e above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
f If you select EAS3003 or EAS3122, you must take 60 credits from this list of optional Film Studies modules.
g If you select either EAF3514 or EAF3516, you must take 60 credits from this list of optional English modules.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTVS Final Stage CH option modules 2023-4 [See note f above] | |||
| EAF3501 | American Independent Film | 30 | No |
| EAF3508 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Western Cinema | 30 | No |
| EAF3513 | British Screens | 30 | No |
| EAF3514 | Film Studies Dissertation | 30 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAF3516 | Creative Film Dissertation | 30 | No |
| EAF3518 | Queering British Film and Television | 30 | No |
| EAF3520 | Beyond Sex and the City: Becoming a Woman in Contemporary Western Cinema | 15 | No |
| EAF3521 | Film Audiences | 30 | No |
| EAS Final Stage Option Modules 2023-4 [See note g above] | |||
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3131 | Advanced Critical Theory | 30 | No |
| EAS3167 | James Joyce's Ulysses | 30 | No |
| EAS3181 | Visual and Literary Cultures of Realism | 30 | No |
| EAS3182 | Encountering the Other in Medieval Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3191 | Writing for Children and Young Adults | 30 | No |
| EAS3198 | The Death of the Novel | 30 | No |
| EAS3219 | Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form | 30 | No |
| EAS3225 | 'Reader, I Married Him': The Evolution of Romance Fiction from 1740 to the Present | 30 | No |
| EAS3235 | American Modern | 30 | No |
| EAS3237 | The Rise of Science | 30 | No |
| EAS3241 | Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present | 30 | No |
| EAS3245 | The 21st Century Museum | 30 | No |
| EAS3252 | Poison, Filth, Trash: Modernism, Censorship and Resistance | 30 | No |
| EAS3311 | Piracy in Early Modern Literature, 1570-1730 | 30 | No |
| EAS3408 | Poetry and Politics | 30 | No |
| EAS3414 | Jane Austen: In and Out of Context | 30 | No |
| EAS3415 | The Development of British Childrens Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3416 | Feeling Bodies: Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1500-1700 | 30 | No |
| EAS3417 | Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3419 | Writing South Asia | 30 | No |
| EAS3420 | Staging Space: Dramatic Geography and Audience Experience | 30 | No |
| EAS3421 | Picturing the Global City: Literature and Visual Culture in the 21st Century | 30 | No |
| EAS3502 | Shakespeare and Crisis | 30 | No |
| EAS3503 | Migration, Literature and Culture | 30 | No |
| EAS3501 | Fiction Matters | 30 | No |
| EAS3100 | Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity | 30 | No |
| EAS3507 | Writing Song Lyrics | 30 | No |
| EAS3500 | American Counterculture in Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3152 | Heroes and Exiles: English Poetry of the Age of Beowulf | 30 | No |
| EAS3504 | Surrealism and its Legacies | 30 | No |
| EAS3246 | Food and Literature in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| HUM3016 | Book Publishing: Principles of Book Commissioning, Editing and Design | 30 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Demonstrate a broadly-based understanding of the coverage, content and methodologies of English and Film Studies. | ILOs 1-5 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation. Modules at stage 3 are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. Your learning is further developed through engagement with assessments, following guidance from tutors and lecturers and through feedback on work submitted. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, audio-visual and written essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation which can be critical or creative. Essays, exams and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills in ILOs 1-5. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
6. Apply critical skills in the analysis of English literature, film and television. | ILOs 6-10 are developed throughout the programme in all modules, with the emphasis becoming more complex as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion). They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, written and/or audio-visual essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
11. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILOs 11-16 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through the programme. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. ILO 16 is associated especially with the range of group presentations and projects taking place in modules during the programme. Group assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team working, collaborative and communicative skills. Individual contributions to group work are also assessed individually, most often in the form of a reflective presentation report. ILOs 18-19 are accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations and end of module exams, which occur through the programme. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must normally achieve an average mark of at least 50% in Stage 1. If you do not achieve an average mark of 50% in Stage 1, you will be interviewed to determine whether you can continue on the Employment Experience programme; if you do not succeed in that interview you will be required to transfer to the three-year programme. This is to ensure that only those students who are likely to succeed in their Employment Experience are selected. If you are unsuccessful in your application for Employment Experience, you will be transferred to the three-year programme.
HUM3998 Employment Experience UK counts as a single 120 credit module and is not condonable; you must pass this module to graduate with the degree title of BA English and Film & Television Studies with Employment Experience. If you fail the Employment Experience your degree title will be commuted to BA English and Film & Television Studies.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within English and Film Studies have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who are available for three hours a week at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) English and Film & Television Studies with Employment Experience
19. UCAS Code
Q3W8
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] English
[Honours] Communication, media, film and cultural studies
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 22/08/2017 |
Date of last revision | 01/07/2021 |
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